Authors: Alan Bennett
Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal: prurience of young person at
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Aberdeen Art Gallery
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Academy Cinema, Oxford Street, London: AB walks out of
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Ackroyd, Peter
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as soft on More
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Adam, Patrick William: and AB's notion of gracious living
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Adam Smith Institute, London: no friend to the public library
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Advice to Iraqi Women
(Crimp): as a more useful response to the Prime Minister's folly than AB's pounding the pavements
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Agasse, Jacques-Laurent
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Aire River
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Airedale General Hospital, Keighley
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Akhmatova, Anna
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Alabaster Tombs
(Gardner)
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander Mornauer
(Master of the Mornauer Portrait): aka Raymond Burr
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Alexandra, Princess
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Alien
(film): not a patch on the
Golden
Legend
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All Souls College, Oxford
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Alwoodley, Leeds
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Amherst: punctiliousness about punctuation at
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Amnesty International
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Amoore, Derrick
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Andrews Sisters: obligatory listening for the Bennett family
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Annan, Noel
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Annigoni, Pietro
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Antiques Roadshow
(television programme)
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Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)
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Any Questions
(TV programme)
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Arch of Triumph
(film)
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Arden, Eve: as desk-perching witty sophisticate
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Ardizzone, Edward
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Ardkinglas
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Arena Chapel, Padua
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Aris, Ben
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Arlington House hostel, Camden
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Arlington Road resettlement centre, Camden: warm-hearted filthy language at
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Armley, Leeds
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Armley and Wortley News
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Arnolfini, John
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Arthington, Leeds
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Arts Cinema, Cambridge
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âArundel Tomb, An' (Larkin)
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As They Were
(Fisher)
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Ascherson, Neal
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Ashcroft, John: U.S. Attorney General and evangelical bigot
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Assault Division
(Scarfe)
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Assembly Rooms, Leeds
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Astor, David
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Atha, Bernard
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Atkins, Eileen
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ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service)
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Aubrey, John
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Auerbach, Frank
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Austin, J. L.
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Aveling, Valda: as décolleté pianist
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Babes in the Wood
(pantomime)
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Bacall, Lauren
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Bachardy, Don
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Bachauer, Gina: another décolleté pianist
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Bacon, Francis: as unlikely fount of common sense
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BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts)
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Baildon, Mr (toy shop owner)
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Bailey, Paul
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Bainbridge, Yorkshire
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Baker, Stanley
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Balsdon, Dacre
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Balthazar restaurant, New York
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Bannockburn: fall-out from in Craven
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Barber, Rector
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Barber, Samuel: Adagio for Strings
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Bardolino
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Bare Ruined Choirs
(Knowles)
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Baring's Bank
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Barnard Castle
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Barnes, Mary
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Barnett, Sam
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Barraclough, Mr (clock mender)
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Barry, Charles
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Barstow, Stan
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Bayley, John
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BBC
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Light Programme
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BBC1
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BBC7 Studio, Broadcasting House, London
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Bean, Sean
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Beano
album
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Beat the Devil
(film)
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Beaton, Cecil
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Beaumont, Binkie: as unlikely voice of the people
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Beaumont-de-Lomagne
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Beckett, Samuel
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Beckham, David
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Bede, Venerable
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Beecham, Sir Thomas
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Beeching, Dr Richard
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Beeston, Leeds
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Beevor, Antony
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Bell, Julian
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Belle de Jour
(film)
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Bellini, Giovanni:
Agony in the Garden
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Belloc, Hilaire
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Bellow, Saul
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Belsen concentration camp, Germany
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Bennett, Alan (ex-chorister, King's College, Cambridge)
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Bennett, Flo (née Rostron; AB's aunt)
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Bennett, Geoff (AB's cousin)
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Bennett, George (AB's uncle)
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Bennett, Grandad (AB's paternal grandfather)
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Bennett, Jill (no relation)
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Bennett, Lilian (née Peel; AB's mother)
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Bennett, âthe Gimmer' (Walter's stepmother)
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Bennett, Walter (AB's father)
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Benny, Jack
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Benson, Albert
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Bergman, Ingrid
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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Bermejo, Bartolomé: St George and the Dragon
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Beyond the Fringe
(Bennett, Cook, Miller and Moore)
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Bielby, East Riding
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Big Brother
(television series)
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Billy Liar
(film)
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Bindman, Professor David
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Bingham, Tom
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Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero
Mostel, The
(Wesker)
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Blackburn
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Blackheath, London
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Blair, Tony
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see also
mostly under Bush
Blake, William
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Blé en Herbe
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(film)
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Blitz, the
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Bloody Sunday shootings
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Bloom, Allan
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Boer War
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Bogart, Humphrey
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Bohème, La
(Puccini)
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Boleyn, Ann
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Bond, Edward
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Bonfiglioli, Kyril
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Booker Prize,
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Bookmark
(radio programme)
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Boot
,
Das
(film)
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Boston, Mass.
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Botanic Gardens, Oxford
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Botticelli, Sandro
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Boult, Sir Adrian
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Boyle, Andrew
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Bradbourne, Derbyshire
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Bradford Grammar School
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Bradford Telegraph and Argus
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Brahms, Johannes
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Alto Rhapsody
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Second Piano Concerto
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Brando, Marlon
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Breakspears, near Harefield
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Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh)
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Bridgewater, Carl
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Brief Encounter
(film)
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Brighton
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bombing
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Brinsley House Variety Artists Home, Twickenham, Middlesex
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